Pat Quinn

For social service providers who have witnessed the state's frequent flip-flops on funding dental benefits for low-income adults, the prospect of the program getting axed again is a bad case of history repeating itself. Just three years ago, Illinois' Medicaid dental care program was slashed amid wide-ranging changes that ex-Gov. Pat Quinn said would "rescue the state's Medicaid system from the brink of collapse." Two years later, Quinn and lawmakers restored the program, acknowledging that cutting it ended up costing taxpayers significantly more by forcing those without insurance to seek much costlier treatment in emergency rooms, often after their teeth...

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For social service providers who have witnessed the state's frequent flip-flops on funding dental benefits for low-income adults, the prospect of the program getting axed again is a bad case of history repeating itself.
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Republican governor candidate Bruce Rauner said Tuesday that he has worked together for years with Democratic Mayor Rahm Emanuel, but declined to discuss how their personal relationship might affect their political one.The wealthy venture capitalist,...

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Service between the two cities stopped in 1981.
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A Catholic bishop offered prayers of exorcism Wednesday in response to Gov. Pat Quinn's approval of an Illinois gay marriage law, and he suggested politicians are "morally complicit" in assisting the sins of same-sex couples.
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